This year’s Sun Valley Film Festival features several selected films that have locally connected actors, filmmakers, and/or producers. To honor the local talent and these spectacular films, SVPN sat down with a handful of the filmmakers to discuss the making of their films and the ways the Sun Valley area […]
Tag: Kim Frank
A League of Her Own: Honoring Geena Davis by Kim Frank
Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actress and gender-rights advocate, is this year’s recipient of the Sun Valley Film Festival’s Vision Award and Zions Bank-sponsored Grand Dame Award. With a career that includes decades of films that push the envelope for women’s roles, including her most recent virtual reality film, Dear Angelica, […]
20th Anniversary Celebration: Trailing of the Sheep
The faded but still visible “Eat More Lamb” emblazoned on the side of the Mercantile Building in the center of Ketchum’s Main Street tells it best: this area is sheep country. While the sign may be faded now, the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival, created to celebrate Idaho’s sheep […]
We Read Here! Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and The Community Library Share the Literary Wealth by Kim Frank
For four days every summer since 1995, Sun Valley is host to a collection of some of the most glittering jewels in the literary universe. What began as a small group of notable and aspiring writers and readers eager to learn from one another on the Community School campus has […]
8th Annual Sun Valley Road Rally by Kim Frank, photography by Steve Dondero and David Concannon
July in the mountains: trickling streams, a riot of wildflowers, the smell of damp pine, and the single roar of a Bugatti Veyron tearing down an open road at over 250mph. Dust off those classics and tune up your engines as the Sun Valley Road Rally is just around the […]
Visionary Filmmaking: An Interview with Oliver Stone by Kim Frank
Midnight Express, Salvador, Platoon, W, Wall Street, Talk Radio, JFK, Heaven on Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Scarface, Evita, People vs Larry Flynt, The Joy Luck Club, The Untold History of the United States, Snowden…. When spoken aloud to almost any adult, virtually every movie on this list elicits some […]
Discovering Yoga by Kim Frank
You are busy. You have a finite bit of time before your children come home from school, before your next meeting, before you have to walk the dog. You have to walk the dog. He cannot come to yoga class. There are a host of reasons you believe that yoga […]